wildfowl
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Noun[edit]
wildfowl (plural wildfowls or wildfowl)
- Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task: A Poem in Six Books[1], London: J. Johnson, Book 4, p. 168:
- […] Whoso seeks an audit here
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
- 1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Waiting for the Barbarians, London: Secker & Wartburg, page 81:
- In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
- Waterfowl.
Translations[edit]
wild bird
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waterfowl
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Verb[edit]
wildfowl (third-person singular simple present wildfowls, present participle wildfowling, simple past and past participle wildfowled)
- To hunt wildfowl.
- 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 220b:
- The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.
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Translations[edit]
to hunt a wildfowl